Guitar Hero 3

I am no expert at Guitar Hero.  I can play a few songs on hard and 1 on expert.  But, I am in love with this game.  Guitar playing has always been one of my life goals and this is a good quick fix to years of lessons plus its entertaining.

Now I really did not play to but Guitar Hero 3 for a few months but my brother pre-ordered it from the local EB Games.  Since he is in Florida right now, I took it upon myself to make sure his game worked.  Here are my thoughts about GH3.

LOVE the songs, HATE the battles.  Playing in career mode on medium (cause that is my easy mode), I was burning thru the songs for level 1 and level 2.  At the end of level 1 I got my encore song but at the end of level 2, before I could get my encore song I had to battle.  These battles are tough.  If they used real music for these battles it would be much easier but they created new "crap" to battle with.  I battled Tom on medium at least 10 times and no matter what I tried I just could not get him to fail.

The only reason I like Guitar Hero is playing the songs, not to get the best score etc like some of you folks out there.  All songs are locked beyond level 2 until you beat them in career mode and you can not do that unless you win battles.  So I tucked my tail between my legs and switched my career over to easy mode.  This meant I had to start over on all songs.  No problem except that playing the songs put me to sleep on easy.   I get to the battle again with Tom and its so freaken easy.  The level of difficulty between easy and medium battles is like a grand canyon.  I'm going to complete the game on easy just so I can go into quickplay and play all the songs I want whenever I want.

Guitar Hero 3 is a great game.  They changed a few things in this version that at first make you go WTF then go awesome.  The new guitar is sub par though.  While I am sure that some people may break there guitar down in two pieces, most will not.  I found myself using my wired guitar to get maximum effect on whammy bar usage.  In fact, I am going to ebay me another wired guitar.  Wireless just is not cutting it.  Out of 5 stars, I give it a 4.  It looses 1/2 a star for forced overly difficult battles and 1/2 a star for the guitar.

-SJ

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